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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

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This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study. The study defines Millennials as those born between 1982 and 1997, Generation X as those born between 1965 and 1981, Baby Boomers as those born between 1946 and 1964, and Seniors as those born before 1946. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

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The diagram illustrates Accenture’s “Disruptability Index” study published last year. ” There’s no more eHealth or mHealth — it’s all health, it’s all digital. ” bubble chart of industry positions. ” This is the subtext and subtitle of Dr.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

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The Common Sense-CHCF-Hopelab study confirmed that health information seeking was a coping strategy for many younger people in 2020 — especially intense for younger folks who had moderate to severe depression, shown in the right column of the chart. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

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There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. To the issue of trusting my doctor to keep my information secure, the survey found a decline from 89% trusting my doctor in 2019 to 83% in 2020. Three-fourths of U.S.

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

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Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. increased by a relatively low 6.0%